Kirby would make literally every other game trivial, something shown off in excruciating detail by this cute pixel-animated sketch. No Poke Ball can hope to contain his fury.

Kirby: Rainbow Curse has an art style not exactly common in games: one of clay. Everything in the game is made of it and it is animated as if it were claymation. And let me tell you, when you get ...

That's exactly what Sephiroth and Kirby get up to in a charming and hilarious stop-motion animation posted to social media by @shinohara_kenta (thanks, Automaton).

The video details the basics of drawing a circle for a 16x16 sprite, using up to three colours (as was the case for Sakurai's NES Kirby designs), and the beginnings of adding texture. Look, we won ...